2 Samuel 5:7

Good News Translation

But David did capture their fortress of Zion, and it became known as “David's City.”)

Cross References

2 Samuel 5:8

That day David said to his men, “Does anybody here hate the Jebusites as much as I do? Enough to kill them? Then go up through the water tunnel and attack those poor blind cripples.” (That is why it is said, “The blind and the crippled cannot enter the Lord's house.”)

2 Samuel 5:9

After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it “David's City.” He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill.

2 Samuel 6:10

So he decided not to take it with him to Jerusalem; instead, he turned off the road and took it to the house of Obed Edom, a native of the city of Gath.

2 Samuel 6:12

King David heard that because of the Covenant Box the Lord had blessed Obed Edom's family and all that he had; so he got the Covenant Box from Obed's house to take it to Jerusalem with a great celebration.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the Box was being brought into the city, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and jumping around in the sacred dance, and she was disgusted with him.

1 Kings 2:10

David died and was buried in David's City.

1 Kings 3:1

Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

1 Kings 8:1

Then King Solomon summoned all the leaders of the tribes and clans of Israel to come to him in Jerusalem in order to take the Lord's Covenant Box from Zion, David's City, to the Temple.

1 Kings 9:24

Solomon filled in the land on the east side of the city, after his wife, the daughter of the king of Egypt, had moved from David's City to the palace Solomon built for her.

1 Chronicles 11:7

Because David went to live in the fortress, it came to be called “David's City.”

2 Chronicles 24:16

They buried him in the royal tombs in David's City in recognition of the service he had done for the people of Israel, for God, and for the Temple.

2 Chronicles 5:2

Then King Solomon summoned all the leaders of the tribes and clans of Israel to assemble in Jerusalem, in order to take the Lord's Covenant Box from Zion, David's City, to the Temple.

Nehemiah 3:15

Shallum son of Colhozeh, ruler of the Mizpah District, rebuilt the Fountain Gate. He covered the gateway, put the gates in place, and put in the bolts and the bars. At the Pool of Shelah he built the wall next to the royal garden, as far as the stairs leading down from David's City.

Psalm 132:13

The Lord has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:

Psalm 2:6

“On Zion, my sacred hill,” he says, “I have installed my king.”

Psalm 48:12

People of God, walk around Zion and count the towers;

Psalm 48:3

God has shown that there is safety with him inside the fortresses of the city.

Psalm 51:18

O God, be kind to Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Psalm 87:2

more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.

Psalm 9:11

Sing praise to the Lord, who rules in Zion! Tell every nation what he has done!

Isaiah 12:6

Let everyone who lives in Zion shout and sing! Israel's holy God is great, and he lives among his people.”

Isaiah 59:20

The Lord says to his people, “I will come to Jerusalem to defend you and to save all of you that turn from your sins.

Jeremiah 21:13

You, Jerusalem, are sitting high above the valleys, like a rock rising above the plain. But I will fight against you. You say that no one can attack you or break through your defenses.

Micah 4:2

and their people will say, “Let us go up the hill of the Lord, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the Lord's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people.”

Romans 9:33

that the scripture speaks of: “Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”

Hebrews 12:22

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels.

Revelation 14:1

Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion; with him were 144,000 people who have his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.